consumption for the inhabitants of Great Britain; weeks. The planting was commenced on the 5th more than its weight of water and woody fibre, and could not under the most promising circum- of May, and finished on the 15th, and though the yielding in a hundred parts, not three of nutritive stances be much extended. growth ultimately became luxuriant, it was too late matter.

From these facts, from the necessities of Great for a full return, five weeks elapsing before it was It may not be irrelevant to remark, that the proxBritain, the exhausted state of the continent, and its fully up; a circumstance unparalleled in the annals imate principles, which contain chiefly the nutrie inability to supply her demands, the superiority of of agriculture-yet southern planters, who have powers of vegetables, are saccharine matte attach. American* wheat, over that of northern Europe, and viewed it, pronounce it a respectable crop in point mucilage and gluten. To ascertain the earlier maturity of our crops, a flattering pros- of quality, and of beautiful staple. What may be and compare the relative proportions of the pur pect is presented of better prices for our bread stuffs; the extent of injury from the continued autumnal ciples, in esculent plants, before we adopt or select an additional incitement to agricultural industry. rains, I cannot yet know; to such calamities all them for cultivation, is unquestionably a point of Of the cotton market, the prospect is not so dis- crops are equally subject. primary importance. In this, or any other branch couraging as generally believed; though Great Bri- This experiment was made on the clayey soil of of our agricultural profession, where my feeble sertain is experiencing unparalleled distress; and mo- my Appleby farm. From other planting of the vices may avail you, I freely tender them. nopolies and protection laws, sinister and conflict- same day, on a small scale, on the hickory and black In regard to the carrot, I have obtained a few ing interests, may long continue her misfortunes; walnut lands of Transquakin, of much lighter cha- days past, from a hundred parts, ten of saccharine yet her manufacturing system has proceeded too far racter, a heavy gathering was obtained, three weeks matter and four of mucilage, making fourteen in a to be retracted; the education, habits and inter-earlier than from the former, notwithstanding an hundred of nutriment. The beet,* from which I ests of a powerful class will resist the efforts of her inferior and most slovenly cultivation, and the for- expected more, did not yield so much as the carrot, ministry to retrench a system, whose pernicious and mer on the clay soil, under the finest possible cul- which may possibly be ascribed to its being a very inordinate extent is admitted by many of its former ture, as many of you have witnessed. imperfect and defective root. The potato I have and most conspicuous advocates; and it is well au- The inference from these facts, contrary to the not examined; but it is said to yield one-fourth of thenticated, that the excess of domestic supply, or opinion of some modern writers of the south, is its weight of nutriment. chiefly starch. the increased exertions of the manufacturer, more clearly in favour of light soils for cotton; perhaps, To conclude, gentlemen, permit me to remark, than the decline of foreign demand, has produced in our climate only, where a short summer, compa- that be your rotatian large or small; your lands rich the temporary distress of her cotton trade; which, ratively, makes the accelerated growth of a warm or poor; your crops indigenous or exotic, without instar omnium, will have its flax and reflux, its re-soil, the most important point of security. thorough draining, your expectations will be disapgorgement and its revulsion-the balance will be My crop of Palma Christi has been rendered con- pointed-under the influence of stagnant waters restored and the current run as usual. While the siderably abortive by the same cause, the drought; your best hopes will be frustrated, your soil will be manufacturer can find a purchaser, he will continue and not more than three acres of ten vegetated at vitiated, your crops drowned, the atmosphere of his labours The export of this article from Eng- all. The domestic and foreign demand for this ar- your dwellings will be contaminated by noxious exland, the first six months of the present year, has ticle are both extensive, and though the market has halations-and bilious infection, with all its retinue exceeded that of the same period of the last year; suffered a depression, it is quoted in the prices cur- of evils, will harass you for life. Drain your lands, and the present decline, it is said, does not exceed rent of New York at $1.90 per bushel The pro-reclaim your marshes; rely not upon the proffered, the ordinary fluctuations of commerce. In this duct of one bushel of seed is about three gallons of but vain hope of state treasury, and state agency, great foreign market, the character of American oil, which will usually command $1 50 per gallon in this important affair: they are illusive phantoms, cotton has sustained a successful competition with and 25 bushels per acre will, from my experiment, which will operate only to abstract you from realithe most favoured regions of the globe, and its con- form a reasonable predicate for calculation, afford ties. You will command the retribution of health, tinuance may be safely presumed. ing in the result, to the planter and the manufac-wealth and happiness. In our own country, the progress of manufacturer, a liberal compensation for his labour. The luxuriant issue of the experimental crop of tures will justify the planter in large calculations Be not startled, gentlemen, when I mention ano-wheat and corn, the present year, on the reclaimed for the demand of this article. In 1805, about one ther crop which I think of introducing, the follow-marshes of our southern friend, (Mr. Slawson,) to thousand bales made the total demand of this branch ing season, into Dorchester-the Rubia Tinctorum, whose meritorious energies I have justly borne witof manufacture in the United States. In 1816, an or Madder plant, which will infallibly succeed in ness on a former occasion, opens to your view a official report to Congress, states the domestic con- our climate, and holds out a fair promise to the wide field of well founded anticipation. By a modesumption of this material at 90,000 bales, and it is cultivator. It is largely grown in a parallel of lati-rate portion of industry, economy and skill, you may now believed to be five times this amount. tude, more than thirteen degrees north of us, in the develop and enjoy those hidden treasures, riches, What evil sequela may ultimately attend this unkind, cold and humid climate of Holland-and comforts and luxuries of life, which a kind Provimorbid growth, this extravagant devotion to the the market is co-extensive with civilization. dence has designed for those who ask and seek her manufacturing industry, it is not my duty, if it were One other crop merits our most special attention; bounties, in my power to predict. The thread is drawn, the one, whose latitude, soil, climate and market, are Finally, gentlemen, I have to tender my thanks wheel is flying, how many revolutions, before the emphatically our own; one, which will give strength for the polite attention with which you have honourofficious Atropos shall tender her unwelcome ser- and activity to our teams, richness and profusion to ed me, and to the members of this institution I tenvices, eventful time will disclose. To make a pre- our dairies, and will adorn the generous and hospi- der an acknowledgement of the high sense of oblisent advantage, to derive a partial good from an table board with the choicest viands; and yet one, I gation which I entertain, for the distinguished inevil which we cannot avert, is the part of true phi-am compelled to say, whose introduction into the stances of kind feelings which they have exercised losophy. from this source a dawn of hope is pre- county, might fall under the denunciation of the towards me, and I take this occasion to repeat, that sented to the agriculturist, and many years, possibly frugal and fastidious farmer, a martyr to the odious though I decline the honour of a re-election for the ages, of profitable labour may yet reward him. epithet of innovation. The large and valuable fa- ensuing year, as President of this society—yet, as From these considerations-from the physical mily of the grasses, is that to which I would call far as my feeble exertions may be serviceable, they advantages of a larger rotation, the extended pros- your attention. The neglect of this branch of agri- will be ardently continued, for the promotion of the pects of a market, and the value of the article at culture is one of our most palpable errors. To science and practice of a profession which I have home and abroad, I have adopted and recommend name to this intelligent audience the comforts and adopted, and which I hold to be one of the most into your attention, experiments of the growth of luxuries of life, flowing directly from this source of dependent, most honourable, most inviting, and cotton: if error be imputed to me, I stand counselled industry, would be presumptuous; to attach the de- most useful of the occupations of man. by the judicious and classic sentiment, nulla palles-linquency, I am justified by the notoriety of the cere culpa. fact. The deepest interests of the farmer are inti The result of my experiment of thirty acres of mately connected with this object of attention; and cotton, (upland species,) the present year, it is not yet, it is almost wholly neglected, and the small yet in my power to state, as the gathering will not quantity of grasses grown, are considerably dimi- respectable and intelligent gentleman of Baltimore, be completed before the last of December; an ear-nished in value, by premature harvesting. Fre- by a gentleman of this town, under date of Novemlier period than is usual in the south. A season so quent and infallible analyses have established the ber 8th, 1826-and will no doubt be read with inunpropitious has not occurred, perhaps, in the me- fact, that the grasses contain the most nutriment, terest by the tobacco planters and others of this mory of man. The unprecedented drought of the when their seed is matured; and if cut, when in state.-Zanesville Messenger. spring has retarded its growth and maturity many flower, the weight of nutritive matter lost exceeds

Analysis of American Wheat.-From 100 parts of white flint wheat, grown in Dorchester, Md. ou a clayey soil, I obtained 30 parts of gluten. Wheat grown in northern Europe, is stated to yield only about 20 parts of gluten in 100.

half its value.

ON HEMP, WOOL AND TOBACCO.

The following letter was received from a highly

In reply to several written queries handed me when I had the pleasure to see you here, and in compliance with your request to communicate any information that I might deem useful to the citizens

Many roots of equal value with the grasses, are totally neglected as food for cattle. The carrot, the beet, the parsnip, and the potato are all worthy of attention for this purpose. The turnip, even the *From a fine beet, since procured, I obtained 12 parts far famed species of ruta baga, is worth very little of saccharine matter in 100.

FOR THE AMERICAN FARMER.

PLANTS.

of Ohio, I proceed to remark, that the "present the ordinary qualities; but they think the fine yel price" varies from $3.50 to $25, in accordance with low ought to be fired-that the smoke flavour is not ON PERNICIOUS AND UNPROFITABLE the various shades of quality; very little, however, objected to in the north of Europe, where this dethat comes to market, will command the highest scription is mostly used-and that by the firing a cerprice named; but tobacco carefully selected, well tain sweetness is imparted to it which it would not SIR, West-Chester, Pa., Feb. 19, 1827. qualified, and every hand fine yellow, would sell otherwise have. Whilst a knowledge of the useful plants is an obreadily at this price. The greater proportion, how- Whilst those who are deemed most competent to ject of primary importance with the farmer and ever, commands from 6 to $11. judge differ so widely, it would be the part of prac-gardener, it is believed that it would be advantaThe future price of Ohio tobacco depends partly tical wisdom to qualify some on each plan, that the geous to be better acquainted with those which are on the character which may be established for it in matter may be tested. worthless, or pernicious—and especially to learn the Europe, and partly on the extent of the crop in If the freemen of Ohio persevere, they will put best modes of subduing and eradicating those which Ohio and Maryland. down all competition on the part of the slave states injure the crops, usurp the grounds, or impede the As regards the character of the Ohio tobacco, I in relation to the finer qualities of tobacco. In Ma- labours of the agriculturist. Without presuming, am unable to perceive why it should not be favour- ryland, the fine yellow or kite foot can only be ob- myself, to teach the most effectual and eligible meable, but rumours are afloat, that in Germany it has tained from lands newly cleared. The second crop thods of extirpating the vegetable pests of the farm been pronounced inferior to the Maryland in point is inferior to the first, and the third to the second. and garden, I have thought it might be worth while of flavour. Time will test the correctness of these I, then, they continue the cultivation in this state, to enumerate those plants which are most troublerumours, and I hope prove them to be unfounded. they will shortly have no land to clear; whilst in some and injurious, in this region of country-and As regards the extent of the Ohio crop, you are of Ohio you have lands in abundance, which you are briefly to note the methods practiced, by our most course better informed than I can possibly he; hence desirous to clear whether you grow tobacco or not. judicious farmers, for keeping them in subjection. on this point I would be glad to receive information The result of the matter will be, that the fine qua- I shall notice them in the order in which they are from you. The Maryland crop is considerably be-lities which will bear the heavy expense of trans- presented in the Linnaan, or sexual arrangement of low an average crop in quantity, and the quality is portation, will be grown in Ohio, whilst the inferior plants-giving the botanical and common names, quality will be grown in this state convenient to and accompanying them with such remarks as my It must, however, be borne in mind, that there is market. limited information may suggest.* The agriculture as much of the last Maryland crop still in the state The "cause of the decline in price" may be ac- of this vicinity has been supposed, by good judges, warehouses as, when added to the quantity made counted for by stating the fact, that there never to be as neatly and advantageously conducted, as this season, will make a full average crop. The was any thing to justify the extravagant prices paid that of any other portion of the United States: but Ohio planters will have the advantage in the quali- last season, and that those who made investments the art of subduing certain injurious weeds may be ty of their tobacco, and I think there is reason to at those high prices sustained a loss on their ship- better understood, in some districts, than it is here. hope that for fine yellow, and fine red, such a price ments; had they continued to pay the same prices, Certain it is, that our farms are infested by some will be obtained as will reward them for their la- they must all have been ruined pernicious plants which baffle all our efforts to get bour. To obtain this, however, it is necessary that I have recently examined a very beautiful sample rid of them, and any information which may be great attention be paid to selecting and assorting of hemp, said to be cleaned in Kentucky by a ma- elicited from other quarters, in relation to the obthe tobacco, and to packing the same quality and chine, without having been previously either dew jects of this essay, will doubtless be interesting and colour together, for purchasers are very much cis- or water rotted; and I am assured by one of our acceptable to a number of your readers. posed to rate the quality from the inferior, rather most respectable manufacturers of cordage, that Yours, respectfully,

admitted on all hands to be inferior.

them to remain at home.

W. D.

infest the Farms in Chester county, Pa. (Read before the CHESTER COUNTY CABINET of NatuRAL SCIENCE--Communicated for the Am. Farmer.) No. 1. DIANDRIA.-MONOGYNIA.

Salvia lyrata. Wild sage. Meadow sage. Cancer weed.

more value.

than the superior tobacco packed in the hogsheads.this sample is in every respect equal to the best J. S. SKINNER, Esq. Last season, some of the Ohio hogsheads were Russian hemp, and that he would cheerfully give made too small; and consequently the shippers, who for the same quality $200 per ton: whilst the com- Notices of Pernicious and unprofitable Plants, which pay for freight by the hogshead, made complaints mon dew rotted will not command more than $120 about "light weight." It is therefore better that per ton. they be made the full Maryland size, say 49 inches The dew rotted hemp is completely cried down, long, and bulge and head added together not to ex- and to water rot it was objected to in your state, ceed 70 inches. A hogshead of these dimensions because it was not only laborious, but deemed very will contain from 7 to 800 lbs. of yellow tobacco. unhealthful in your climate. Should, however, the This is the proper market to which to send the machine spoken of be found to answer, I see no fine tobacco, as it is only here that the quality is pro- good reason why the attention of the people of Ohio This is a worthless plant, in an agricultural point perly understood; that it is miserable policy to send should not be turned to the growing of hemp. The the inferior qualities here, as they only produce suf- protecting duty is about equal to the expense of of view, and frequently abounds on dry, sterile ficient to pay the expense of carriage and other transportation to the sea board; you would there- meadow banks; but it is not very troublesome. It charges: hence, whilst they pay nothing on the la- fore be placed on an equality with the grower in is readily expelled by manuring the soil, during a bour bestowed on them, they increase the charges Russia, and eventually you would drive him out of rotation of crops, and introducing other plants of on the fine tobacco by increasing the price of trans- the market. It seems to me that this is a subject portation. It is better, then, to send the trash of worthy of investigation by your men of public spirit. TRIANDRIA.-MONOGYNIA. green, brown and olive down the river, or permit It is understood that your soil is admirably adapted Scirpus. Club rush. Several species of this octo the growth of this article, and there is little cur in low, wet meadow grounds, and are all worthAs regards the proper time to send to market, I doubt but that the cultivator would be better re- less; but may be eradicated by draining and culhave to remark, that the earlier it is forwarded af warded for labour bestowed upon it than if bestow-ture. ter being properly qualified, the better; for the ex-ed on the cultivation of any description of grain. pense of putting a hogshead of tobacco into the The subject of growing wool has already attractLeersia oryzoides. Wild rice. Cut-grass. state warehouse for one day is the same as if you ed some attention in your state, and I doubt not but permit it to remain there for one year; hence, by those who embark with spirit in this branch of buThis is a grass of little, or no value, and is very troublesome in the latter part of summer, by filling sending early, you have the choice of the period of siness, will profit-by it. The time has arrived when sale without any additional charge. the woollen manufactures of this country are about up ditches with its herbage, and impeding the proThere is some diversity of opinion as to the ad- to increase with great rapidity-and as it seems to be gress of the water-thereby causing the adjacent vantage of curing by fire. In Maryland the plan admitted that wool rather deteriorates along the grounds to be swampy. Careful draining, and culters cure by firing; they are not able to obtain the Atlantic sea board, whilst it improves in quality in of extirpating this, and other aquatic weeds. ture with the plough, are the most effectual methods fine colour without it. But many suppose that in Ohio, the time must come when the supplies for Bromus secalinus. Cheat. Chess. Brome-grass. your state, where the soil is rich and the growth the manufacturing establishments in this district of This foreign plant is chiefly injurious by mixing quick, it could be sufficiently qualified and the fine country must be drawn from your state. colour obtained without the aid of fire. And as It is parYour climate being suitable-your and growing with our small winter grain lands cheap, of our inspectors, that the tobacco would be more per centage on the value of the article, it seems to otherwise be, in consequence of a strange notion this can be done, it is the opinion of Mr. Boyd, one and the expense of transportation being but a small ticularly troublesome among wheat; and some farmers are less careful to weed it out than they might valuable than if cured by fire, as it would be free me that the rearing of sheep must prove to be a that it is nothing but degenerate wheat. This nofrom the smoky flavour which he deems an objec-profitable business.

tion.

TRIANDRIA.-DIGYNIA.

Ohio has already been distinguished for her Me- tion, of the transmutation of plants, was brought On the other hand. I have conversed with two rino wool; and I hope by the aid of your public spi- Those who may desire to see an accurate d scription gentlemen, recently returned from Germany, who rited citizens, some of the fine Saxon sheep lately sold of the plants here enumerated, are referred to the concur in opinion with the inspector, in relation to to the north, will find their way to your genial climate. cellent Floras of Messrs. Torrey and Elliott.

from Europe by some of our credulous ancestors; varieties of plants. The trees and shrubs are said Nurserymen, if they understand their business, but a curious circumstance happened in its transi- to exceed in number those of any other collection never plant a species of tree where the same kind tion hither. In Europe, they believed that wheat in the world. Of the acer (maple,) there are 27 va- has been taken up, until the ground has been well changed to lolium, or darnel; but when they brought rieties; crætagus (thorn,) 47; fraxinus (ash,) 32; pi- manured and cropped two or three seasons. the belief to this country, they happened to leave nus (pine,) 40; quercus (oak,) 40; rosa, (rose,) with The facts stated by Mr. Curtis are particularly the lolium behind so they very adroitly substituted its varieties, 1450; salix (willow,) 192; ulmus (elm,) important to grass husbandry. Grasses, like other bromus in its stead, as being the nearest like it of 20, &c. plants, have their particular seasons of growth. any thing they could find! All which goes to show, Covent Garden Market-The following abstract There are several species which start with the first that vulgar errors are not to be defeated by acci of the prices of forced and other vegetables in the appearance of vegetation, and which blossom in dents of that sort, but must be subdued by the ac- London market, which are quoted from Loudon, April or May. Others start later, grow vigorously quisition of correct information. Constant care in cannot fail to excite surprise: after the first have become stationary, and flower in the selection of seed, is obviously the mode to keep Feb. 7. Asparagus 10 to 12s per 100. Apples 16 succession, in June, July and August. Others prethis plant, as well as cockle, out of the wheat field. to 20s per bushel. serve their vigour and growth until vegetation is Andropogon. Wood-grass. Indian-grass. Feb. 21. Cucumbers 21s per brace. checked by the frost of autumn. A pasture posFour or five species of this worthless grass pre- March 21. Colmar Pears 1. 1s per dozen, and sessing these different kinds, some of which are in vail in our sterile old fields, and always indicate the thought cheap. Strawberries 3s per oz. Sweet- vigourous growth in every part of the grazing seaowner to be an indifferent farmer. It can be got water Grapes 21. 2s and upwards per lb. rid of at any time by improving the land. April 24. Grapes 24 to 30s per lb. Strawberries 2s per oz. Apples 24s per bushel.

Panicum. Panick-g -grass.

son, must possess a manifest advantage over that which has but one or two kinds, which only shoot with superfluous plenty in spring, in midsummer, or We have ten or twelve species of this grass, April 18. Young Potatoes 2s 6d to 4s per lb. in autumn, independently of the consideration sugwhich are of little worth; and some of them are May 16. Cherries 12 to 16s per lb. gested by Mr. Curtis, that the number of plants, nuisances, not easily got rid of, especially the P crus June 3. Garden snails 1s per doz English frogs and the gross product, will be more than doubled; galli, or cock's-foot panick-grass. This species is a 1d each; snakes 4d each; leeches 10 to 20s per hun-it affords a luxuriant growth, and abundance of nuforeigner, and generally prevails in rich, moist mea-dred. See Gard. Mag pp. 216. 348. tritious feed, at all times. It is this property which dows, and about the drains of barn yards. Important fact in regard to Grasses.-Any certain gives a peculiar value to old pastures. In Great Setaria glauca, Torrey. Fox-tail grass. Bottle grass, soil, says Curtis, will maintain a greater, and pro Britain they are esteemed a third more valuable for This is an abundant grass, particularly in stubble duce more nutritious produce, if cropped with a the dairy than pastures newly laid down; because fields, though it is pretty well kept under where number of different species of grasses, than it main they contain many grasses, some of which luxuriate other grasses have possession of the scil. Poultry tains and produces if cropped with only one or two at every season of the year. By sowing the many feed on the seeds, but cattle are not fond of it. It species. This is a curious and important fact, and kinds of grasses which they contain, a new pasture is a foreigner. (To be continued.) which has been unnoticed in previous works on the will attain the value of an old one, the second or subject, as well as neglected in practice. If an acre third year after seeding. A better attention to our of good land is sown with three pecks of rye grass, indigenous grasses, and the introduction of more We have been assured that the woo! produced only will be maintained on the square foot of such of American farming. and one peck of the clovers or trefoil, 470 plants from abroad, would very much further the interests last year by the flock of Mr. Sprigg, near Wheel- land; if a larger quantity of these seeds is sown, J. B. ing, was sold to the Messrs. Rapp, at Economy, for whether of these two species, or of any other two, the sum of $2400. It is supposed that not less than the extra plants vegetated (which will certainly ap$150,000 worth of wool was, within the last year, pear at first, if the seeds are good,) will decay in a transported eastward from this city, Steubenville short time, and leave blank spaces to be filled up and Wheeling. When the Steubenville woollen with weeds or spurious grasses; or, in fact, plants factory was established a few years since, wool of different species, supplied by the soil, manure or enough could not be procured west of the moun- neighbouring hedges. But if, instead of two spetains to keep it in operation. Now there is a large cies of grasses, eight to twenty different sorts are factory at Economy. If protection were afforded against the fluctuation of foreign supply, there would soon be several great establishments for the manufacture of woollen goods in this city.

WOOL.

[Guernsey (Ohio) Times.

HORTICULTURE.

HORTICULTURAL ITEMS, From Loudon's Gardeners' Magazine for 1826. Preservation of Apples in winter-Robert Donald thus describes his method and success in preserving apples, in the Gardener's Magazine:

sown on the same soil, or that now alluded to, a
thousand plants will be maintained on the same
space, and the weight of produce in herbage and in
hay increased in proportion.-Hort. Gram. Wob. pp.
24, 245.

LADIES' DEPARTMENT.

THE VOW.

O clear that cruel, doubting brow!
I call on mighty Jove

To wrness this eternal vow-
'Tis you alone I love.

"O leave the god to soft repose,

(The smiling maid replies,)
For Jove but laughs at lovers' vows,
And lovers' perjuries.”

By honour'd beauty's gentle pow'r,
By friendship's holy flame!
"Ah! what is beauty but a flow'r,

And friendship but a name?"
By those dear tempting lips, I cry'd;
With arch ambiguous look,
Convinc'd, my Chloe glanced aside,
And bade me "kiss the book."

THE WEDDING.

It has been remarked by farmers, that if oats and peas are sown together, each in sufficient quan tities for a crop, the product of each will be as great as if it had occupied the ground wholly. The only way in which I can account for this fact, as also that quoted above from Curtis, is upon the theory of Grisenthwaite, that different species of plants take up different qualities of food from the soil; that what is indispensable for the perfection of "I had a trench dug five feet wide, one foot below one, is not necessary to, or taken up by, another; the surface of the ground, and twelve feet long. I that each requires a specific or particular food. Incovered the sides and bottom with turf, the grassy deed, this is amply recognized in the rotation of sides upwards, and then filled the space with golden crops. A succession of the same crops' will inevi- If there be a scene in this wide world on which knobs and some French crabs, about 2 feet deep tably deteriorate, unless the soil upon which they the eye of heaven could rest with complacency, it in the centre, sloping a little to the sides; I then are sown is annually supplied with the specific food is when two hearts are bound in that tie which "no covered them close with turf, the grassy side next which they consume. We see this principle further man can put asunder." And to those who are fond the fruit, to keep them clean. I next had the ridge illustrated in the alternations of spines which are of observing the various scenes of life, the weddingcovered with mould a foot thick, to keep out the constantly taking place in our meadows and in our day incident will afford a theme in which fancy can frost and exclude the external air. In the end of forests. In Gloucester, Eng., the sainfoin will abide revel in wild and happy luxuriance. Although it is April I had them taken out, in fine preservation. I in the chalk soils ten years; after which the same a time for rejoicing, as every pretty face will tell by again last autumn kept 50 bushels in the same way ground will not grow sainfoin till ten other years the smile that plays upon it: yet, at times, a solemwith equal success." have intervened (Marshall.) In Holland it is con- nity will steal unawares over the mind, as we ponCharcoal dust, the refuse of a charcoal pit, ap- sidered unsafe to sow flax in the same field oftener der upon the future, that all is wrapped in darkness, plied to the ground half an inch thick, and mo- than once in ten or twelve years. Grisenthwaite, it until our feelings will be for a moment lost in a mild derately mixed with the top soil, has been found a may be remarked, contends that a rotation of crops rich reverie.

complete preventive of the depredations of the grub, is not necessary; but this is only on the supposition, He who passes through life without ever feeling of mouldiness in onions, and the clubbing in the that the specific manure consumed by the crop is the soft raptures of that charm which woman posroots of cabbages and cauliflowers.-Lond. Hort. annually restored to the soil by the cultivator. It sesses, when age has whitened his locks, and the Trans. is well known that a young apple tree will not grow incidents of his pilgrimage pass in review before

Loddige's Nursery, at Hackney, near London, well where an old one has died or been dug up; yet him, will acknowledge that wedding scenes are ontains more than 8000 species, exclusive of 2000 a tree of another species may thrive well there. sunny spots that glitter on the landscape of his

ment of Dry Docks, the want of which has hitherto subjected the country to great loss, expense and delay, in repairing and fitting out our public vessels. The bill provides for the construction of two dry docks, the one to the north, and the other to the south, of the Potomac river.

lb.

BEEF, Baltimore Prime, bbl. 8 00 8 50
BACON, and Hams,.
|BEES-WAX, Am. yellow
COFFEE, Java, .
Havana,.

COTTON, Louisiana, &c.
Georgia Upland,.
COTTON YARN, No. 10,

An advance of 1 cent
each number to No. 18.

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RAIL ROAD FROM BALTIMORE TO THE OHIO The next provision of the bill directs the construc- After years of discussion, and attempts in every tion of a MARINE RAIL WAY at Pensacola, for the form, to excite a proper feeling on the subject of repair of sloops of war and other vessels of an in- internal improvements which might be made conferior class. Railways have, it is understood, been tributory to the improvement of the state and of used in Europe for vessels of this description with this city; after various surveys to ascertain the pracgreat advantage, combining in a great degree econ- ticability, and expositions to show the benefit of omy and despatch. canals-it would seem that the publick mind is likeAnother provision_relates to the survey and im- ly to settle down upon rail roads, as the most eco- CANDLES, Mould, Dipt, provement of NAVY YARDS, and the adoption of sci-nomical and efficient mode of facilitating the interentific plans for these objects. course between the Chesapeake and the Western CHEESE,. Another, and perhaps the most interesting fea- waters. In our next, we shall present our readers FEATHERS, Live,.. ture of the bill, is that which authorizes the estab- with the bases of the calculations which have conFISH, Herrings, Sus. Shad, trimmed, Jishment of a NAVAL ACADEMY. This subject has ducted our monied men to this conclusion. It has all FLAXSEED,. of late years created much interest in the public along been known, that unless they could be con mind, and the want of such an establishment has vinced and excited, nothing could be hoped; and we been seriously felt by the country, and has certain can now assure our readers, that we have never seen ly been very much and very generally desired. 5 50 the capitalists of this city more united, nor more The great object of the bill. however, and that sanguine, nor more liberally disposed, than they aptowards which by far the greater portion of the fund pear at this time to be in the design to construct a will be applied, is the collection and preservation of rail road from Baltimore, by the valley of the PotoShip Timber, for the future construction of ships, mac and Cumberland, to some point on the Ohio. of all the classes now used in the Navy of the United States. Without the immediate adoption of this policy, there are well founded apprehensions of a serious deficiency in the most valuable species of ship timber, Live Oak.

Chamber of the House of Delegates, Annapolis Feb. 9th, 1827. SIR,-I have the honour to inform you, that you were, on the 30th ultimo, elected by the House of From this brief statement, it will be seen how ex- Delegates of Maryland, a Director on the part of tremely important are the provisions of the bill, the State, in the Bank of Baltimore, for the present which has just passed the Senate. Should it meet year. the sanction of the House of Representatives, which we see no reason to doubt, very little will remain to

I have the honour to be, sir,
Your obed't serv't,

GIDEON PEARCE, Cik.
Ho. Del. of Md.

be done to put the Navy on a footing of respecta-To J. S. SKINNER, ESQ.
bility suited to its great importance, and the feel-
One of your correspondents asks, What will
ings and expectations of the country. Indeed, ex-
cept a revision of the rules for the government of prevent pigeons from injuring gardens? A hawk,
the Navy, and some alterations in the organization nailed to a post, in a conspicuous part of the gar-
The wings
of the establishment itself, nothing will remain to den, will keep pigeons and fowls away.
be done, for many years to come, for the further of the hawk should be spread out wide.
advancement of this valuable and interesting arm
of the national defence. We feel ourselves called TOBACCO.-Mr. Reuben N. Dorsey, of Anne
upon to repeat our convictions of the great value of Arundel county, sold this week, one hogshead at
the bill, and to congratulate the country on its suc- $30 per hundred. Three of the same crop sold in
[Nat. Int.
November last, at $22.50.

cess.

RECIPE.

(From the Indiana Whig.)

CURE FOR THE BITE OF A SNAKE.

PLES.

FLOUR, Superfine, city, bbl. 5 255 374

Fine,

5 00

Susquehanna, superfi.
GUNPOWDER, Balti.. 25 lb 5 00
GRAIN, Ind. corn, yellow bush

white

53
53! 54
1 10 1 20
1 00 1 10

1 05 1 10

70 75

1 10 1 20
90 100

bush 6 25 6 50 7 00

none

LEATHER, Soal, best,
MOLASSES, sugar-house | gal.
Havana, Ist qual.
NAVAL STORES, Tar, bbl. 1 501 62
NAILS, 6a20d.
Pitch,..
Turpentine, Soft,
OIL, Whale, common, .
Spermaceti, winter
PORK Baltimore Mess,
do. Prime,.

37

530

1 75

250 275

gal.

33

34 40

70

75 88

bbl

11 50 12 00
9 00 950

ton. 3 25

bbl. 1 50

18

10

7 12 12 18

The above are stated merely as remarkable cases of high prices to show what may be occasionally had for tobacco of the very finest quality that can be made. With respect, however, to the general PLASTER, cargo price, state of the market, it is fair to state, that a consi ground, derable quantity of the lowest grade has been sold RICE, fresh, As the publick in the western country are much within a few weeks for about four dollars-whilst Brown and yellow, interested in knowing whatever may be a good re-little or nothing has been doing in tobacco of mid-WHISKEY, 1st proof, gal. PEACH BRANDY, 4th pr medy for the poison injected into the human flesh dling qualities. Amount of inspections in the three State Ware- APPLE BRANDY, 1st pr by the bite of a snake, I think it my duty to state a fact within my own knowledge. About the year houses for the last week, 113 hhds. SUGARS, Havana White, c.lb. 13 00 13 50 14 1815 or 1816, one of my children was bitten by a EVERGREEN THORNS, AND SUGAR MAdo. 10 00 10 50 Brown, Louisiana, copperhead, on the inside of both ankles, nearly at Loaf, the same instant. I instantly procured pulverized charcoal and mixed it with as much hogslard as JOSHUA PIERCE, near George Town, requests us to SPICES, Cloves, Ginger, Ground, made it adhere. I then made a plaster of it, and say, that in a few days he will send to us for sale, Pepper,. 10,000 Pyracantha, or Evergreen Thorns, at six dollars applied it to the wounds, rerewing the plaster per thousand. Also, some handsome Sugar Maples. SALT, St. Ubes, every twenty or thirty minutes, for ten or twelve Those trees are of good size, and would be ornamental Liverpool ground hours, at the same time giving the child fresh milk in our yards, &c. to drink. This remedy had the desired effect, and very little pain was endured after the first application. Not more than five minutes elapsed from the time Of the specific application of Fermentative, and Fosthe child was bitten until the cure was applied, and in that short time, so violent was the advance of sil or Saline Manures-Address to the Dorchester Agrithe poison, being near a blood vessel, that its tongue cultural Society, at their second Fair and Exhibition, was much swollen, and green matter was vomited Nov. 9th, 1826, by Dr. J. E Muse-On Hemp, Wool and by the child; but the effect of the antidote was near Horticultural Items-Poetry, The Vow-The WedTobacco-On pernicious and unprofitable Plants --Wool ly as instantaneous as the poison. Several of my ding-Sale of a Stud of English Horses-Poetry, The neighbours in the vicinity of Newport, near Blairs-Death of the Stag-Improvement of the Navy-Cure ville, in this county, can attest the above facts. for the bite of a Snake-Editorial, Rail Road from BalJAMES M'CORMICK. timore to the Ohio.